Aptean earns TEC certification

Aptean, represented in South Africa by Rifle-Shot Performance Holdings, has announced that its Ross ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution has been certified by Technology Evaluation Centres (TEC) for its process manufacturing suite. Rifle-Shot Performance...

IGF summit to keep Web on track

The Internet Governance Forum (IGF) will take place in Johannesburg on 17 and 18 July 2014 and is hosted by the Internet Society of SA – Gauteng Chapter (ISOC-Gauteng).The meeting has been strategically scheduled to take place after the African Internet...

AngloGold Ashanti uses IsoMetrix solution

AngloGold Ashanti has chosen IsoMetrix as the preferred software solution for Social Management at all its operations in continental Africa region and South America region. IsoMetrix, a leading supplier of software for governance, risk and compliance, provides a...

JCSE: SA businesses must be POPI-ready

The Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) at Wits University says that IT businesses need to be aware of the implications of the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act, signed into law on 26 November 2013. JCSE director Prof Barry Dwolatzky says that...

Can you trust self-signed SSL certificates?

The problem of verifying identity, and being able to trust that verified identity, has only worsened as internet usage has increased, and usernames and passwords have become more valuable, says Megan Rehbock, LAWtrust, certificate service manager. Security measures...

Consumers’ sensitive info still vulnerable

Current electronic payment systems are, in most instances, inherently vulnerable to on-going cybercrime. This means that South African merchants may find themselves exposed to cyber theft if security measures are not improved. This is the opinion of Vaughan Alexander,...